Gearing up to respond

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Linda Lawson

CRTC students climbed a ladder truck from Concord Fire Department’s Central Station Friday, April 21.

Students in the Concord Regional Technical Center Emergency Services course took turns climbing Tower 2 from Concord Fire Department’s Central Station on Friday, April 21. Emergency Services prepares students for careers as firefighters, EMTs and other emergency responders. According to the program’s CRTC webpage, classes cover emergency medical skills and procedures, CPR, first aid, disaster response, NH EMT scope of practice modules, search and rescue, structural firefighting and wildland firefighting.